Adobe Creative Suite Reverse-Engineered, Released as Open Source

A small team used AI to reverse engineer Adobe Creative Suite and released the code as open source, with bugs expected to be fixed within a month.

Close-up of a MacBook Pro with Adobe Illustrator open on a desk, showcasing creative workspace essentials.
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According to the report, a small group of two to four 'Vibecoders' from the company Aircraft fed the binary machine code of Adobe's Creative Suite into Anthropic's Claude AI model Opus 5.5. The AI generated a functional source code version of the entire suite, which the team then released as open source.

The release includes all products in the suite, though the team acknowledges that numerous bugs remain. They stated that they expect to resolve all bugs within one month. The implications are described as huge for the software industry.

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